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Insigiat
Rural water
district runs
silent, deep
Independence
from Columbia
water the goal
ByTenyfWedea
MfaMBrtm stag writer
An invisible government operating in
Boone County is busy laying plans to
declare its independence
That mudHgnored little government
is Boone County Consolidated Bural
Water District Number One, one of
eight such districts covering the
county
If the plans of this autonomous body
are successful, the single- purpos- e
government will be essentially
independent from the City of Columbia
for its water supply by this tune nex
year
The plans are not secret, but like
nearly everything undertaken by the
water district, no one pays much
attention.
The chief of state for Consolidated
Water District One Is executive
director Dell Cornell He has played a
leading role in the formation and
development of rural water districts
throughout Missouri for several years
" We're planning to put m a new welL
It's engineered along Route Wabout
sax miles ( 9 6 kilometers) southwest of
Columbia," Cornell says " It could be
in operation in less than a year
Between that and the connection
they're building cow, we should be able
to supply old district eight"
" The old eight" to which Cornell
refers is former rural water district
number eight It includes the northern
portion of the consolidated water
district That area, west of Columbia,
buys its water supply from the City of
Columbia
Consolidated Water District One is
comprised of old districts five, six and
eight Residents of the district voted to
merge just over a year ago
Former districts five and six are self- suffici- ent
Each has two 1200- fo- ot ( 360- mete- r)
wells ' Old eight," however,
has always purchased its water from
Columbia
Cornell says pipe is being laid to
connect okt Aatowrfr cx and dfegrtct
eight He says that project is nearly
completed, and should be in operation
within 30 days
Consolidated district one blankets
nearly half Boone County and ts far
larger than the seven other county
water districts
The district includes all of western
and southern Boone County, except
Ashland and Rocheport, from the
Missouri River to the Columbia city
limits It serves more than 200 water
subscribers That's a far cry from the
340 constituents old water district six
claimed in September 1966 when that
district was formed.
Even that initial figure was
considered something of an
achievement by the men who first
talked about establishing the district It
began operating less than two years
after the evening J M Jose visited
Cornell at his home to talk about their
water
' It was around the first of July in
64," Cornell recalls " The two of us
were just sitting there talking about
some kind of a water district We
figured there were about a hundred
families in a little cluster that could be
served, so we called a meeting "
Twenty- fiv- e persons showed up
" We figured that was a pretty high
interest, so we called a second meeting
two weeks later, and 100 people snowed
up with checks in hand," Cornellsays
That was the beginning of water
district six which was serving some
1,200 users in April of last year when the
three districts voted overwhelmingly to
merge
The consolidation was only the
second such action by water districts in
the state Two districts near Lamar in
( See DISTRICTS, Page 14)
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68th Year No. 239 Gtmd Morning! It a Friday Jul 2, 1976 16 Pages 15 Cent
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Missouri abortion law overturned N. Y. Times Service
WASHINGTON The Supreme
Court ruled 6 to 3 Thursday that states
may not require women to get the
consent of their husbands before they
may have an abortion
The Court also ruled, 5 to 4, that
states may not impose " blanket"
restrictions requiring all single women
under the age of 18 to get the consent of
a parent to have an abortion. The Court
intimated, however, that some more
limited restrictions may be placed on
younger women's right to abortion.
The court issued the rulings in one of
two cases Thursday involving
Missouri's abortion law. ( One of the
cases was initiated by a Columbia pro- abortio- n
group)
The decision, taken together with the
justices unanimous ruling in a thud
abortion case, involving a
Massachusetts law, suggested that
states might be ante to enact a law
calling for parental consent if that law
allowed a " mature minor" to avoid this
requirement, and if tt allowed other
minors to get an abortion despite a
parent's refusal to consent if the
abortion was in their " best interests."
Thursday the Court held unanimously
that states may require a woman,
before she has an abortion, to specify
that her consent is " freely given" and
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not the product of " coercion." The
Missouri law included this
requirement
The Court also held 6 to 3 that it was
unconstitutional for a state to bar the
use of ' saline amniocentesis" in
abortions performed after the 12th
week of pregnancy Missouri had
barred this procedure on the ground
that it was " deleterious" to the
women's health.
The Court ruled in tee Missouri case
that it was consbtubonal for a state to
define viability" the period after
which states may ban abortions as
the stage of fetal development " when
the life of the unborn child may be
continued indefinitely outside the womb
by natural or artificial life- supporti- ve
systems"
The Court also ruled that states may
impose, as Missouri did, reporting and
record- keepin- g requirements for
clinics, hospitals and doctors.
That states may not, as Missouri did,
require doctors performing abortions to
exercise the same degree of care to
preserve the life of the fetus as would be
required to preserve the life of a fetus
that was intended to be born alive
rather than aborted the Court said
The Court provided that there be no
restrictions on the woman's right to an
abortion in the first trimester, that
there could be restrictions in the second
trimester designed to protect the
women's health, and that the state
could forbid abortion in the third
trimester after viability
The lawsuits ruled on Thursday were
brought by two Missouri physicians.
David Hall, 3400 Balboa Lane,
Columbia, and Michael Freiman, St
Louis and a branch of Planned
Parenthood Association in Columbia,
Mo another was brought by Dr
Freiman and a second doctor, George
J L. Wulff, St Louis,, and a suit by an
abortion counselling sen ice in
Massachusetts with several unnamed
single minor girls as co- plaintif- fs
Reflections on America
America is a second country for Van Beasley,
306 S. William St. Mrs. Beasley came to the
United States from Vietnam in June 1968,
after marrying Bill Beasley, an American
serviceman. She is now a naturalized citizen
" I am glad to be here There is more
freedom to talk than in Vietnam and travel is
easier. In Vietnam there was a lot of paper
work and waiting before you could travel.
" What I like best about America is the big
land, green grass and the trees Vietnam is so
crowded, she said. " I lived m Nhatrang, the
fourth largest city m South Vietnam It had
about the same number of people as
Columbia. But the bousing was so crowded
Even the rich people m Vietnam, that have big
bouses or villas, do not have the land that a
regular home's yard has in America "
Mrs. Beasley has a brother in America The
rest of her family is soil in Vietnam " I'll
never forget the culture, the little things,
traditions or customs of Vietnam But my
husband and children ( three daughters) are
here. I'm happy to take America for my
second country," she said.
Columbia plans big Bicentennial weekend
By Kathy Booman
Mbsenrian staff writer
The 200m birthday of America will be
celebrated all weekend m and around
Columbia, climaxing with a fireworks
display at the Memorial Stadium.
City officials expect about 20,000
persons to attend the fireworks display
Sunday night
The celebrations will begin today
with the dedication of Columbia College
as a Bicentennial campus The
ceremony will be at 11 45 a m. on the
front steps of St Clair Hail
Today is also the last day for " Sign
Up, America" at Parkade Plaza
Shoppers can sign their names to
scrolls, some of which will be sent to the
White House as a gift
The Columbia Bicentennial parade
will begin at 10 am. Saturday at
Stephens College and proceed along
Broadway to the Safeway store near
Garth Avenue There are about 95
enbies, including floats, musical
groups, fire trucks, horses, decorated
bicycles and clowns
Mayor Bob Pugh wul be the grand
marshal, accompanied by a 1776 color
guard complete with drum and fife
Judging for the best decorated
bicycles will be at 9 ajn. The parade is
sponsored by the Optimist Clubs of
Columbia
The Older Americans Klub and the
Paquin Towers Senior Citizens Club
will hold a craft sale and demonstration
at the Columbia- Cosmopolit- an
Recreation Area from 10 aon to 6 pm.
Saturday
Ceramics, paintings and weavuigs
will be sold, and there will be
demonstrations of rug hoooking, candle
dipping and quilting Visitors can tr
their hand at the crafts while listening
to the Oak Towers Kazoo Band and the
Paquin Towers Choir, and watching the
square dancing
The Maplewood ribbon cutting and
open bouse will be at 3 p m Saturday
at Nifong Park. Maplewood was
restored as an American Revolution
Bicentennial project and will be
officially dedicated at the Saturday
ceremonies
Bicentennial celebrations continue
Sunday, beginning with a special
worship service at 11 a m at the
Stephens College Assembly Hall. The
speaker at the community interfaith
Bicentennial worship service will be
Bishop William R Cannon of the United
Methodist Church in Atlanta, Ga
A tn- coun- ty worship service and
picnic at Rocheport is planned by five
area churches The 11 ajn. worship
service will be on the lawn between the
Christian and Methodist churches An
old- fashion- ed carry- i- n basket picnic
will be at noon on the lawn
Free tours of a more than 100- year- o- ld
log cabin at 809 West Boulevard N
wQl be conducted Sunday and Monday
from9a. m to 4 p. m.
There will be a dedication of the
Dripping Springs 4-- H Club monument
at 11 15 a m. at the Dripping Springs
Christian Church, off U S 63 North
The climax of the Bicentennial
celebrations will be at the Memorial
Stadium Beginning at 2 30 p m Sun-day
at the west end of the stadium,
there will be carnival games
demonstrations and craft displavs
music entertainment, refreshments
and a barbecue
The Oak Towers Kazoo Band, the
Mizzou Youth Symphony , The Chuko s
and Wonder Dog, and other individual
acts will entertain from 2 30to8pm
Under the stadium at the west end,
there will be a crafts demonstration of
furmture- makin- g, candle- makin- g,
weaving and pottery as well as
displays of antique guns and tools, wood
carvings and authentic stained glass
This will be from 2 30to9pm
The carnival games will run from 4
p m to 9 p m and the $ 1 50- a- pl- ate
chicken barbeque will be from4pm to
7pm
FromSpm. to9pm there will be a
( See FIREWORKS, Page 16)
U. S. now investigating
activities of Korshak
By Seymour ML Harsh
N Y. Tunes Service
NEW YORK More than 35 years
after his activities in organized crime
first came to the attention of the
government, Sidney R. Korshak now is
the prune target of a major federal
investigation
Officials said in recent interviews
that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation was accumulating
evidence on Korshak's alleged
involvement In a labor racketeering
scheme in Southern California
So far, however, no indictments have
been presented in the caseIndeed,
Korshak's name has surfaced in
connection with more than organised
crime investigations over the years,
and he has testified or been subpoenaed
to testify before at least six federal and
Sidney Korshak has been called
the most important link between
organized crime and legitimate
business in toe nation. He is also a
multimillionaire labor lawyer, a
friend of Hollywood stars and a man
of enormous influence and prestige.
This is the nextto- bu- t article in a
series on Ms activities,
state grand juries But he has never
been indicted.
Korshak's friends and associates
have quoted him as boasting about the
government's Inability to -- produce
evidence of criminal activity by him
" I've been investigated by more
congressional committees than
anybody," one associate recalled his
saying during a 1968 business meeting
" But nobody's got anything on me "
Some officials attributed the failure
to convict Korshak to a lack of high- lev- el
commitment in government to
organized crone investigations and a
chronic reluctance to seek the
indictment of lawyers who represent
underworld figures
Officials said, however, that in recent
months the Justice Department had
begun a major re- examinat- ion of its
efforts against sophisticated economic
crime and labor racketeering, focusing
on Korshak and a number of others
Jay C Waldman, deputy assistant
attorney general in charge of the
Justice Department's criminal
division, said in an interview that new
emphasis would be placed on tracing
the underworld's infiltration of
legitimate business
" Organized crime is no longer a
bunch of characters hanging around
ethnic ndghborbocxis," he said. " If
( See FBI, Page 14)
Ruling pleases
By Gayla Neumeyer
Missourian staff writer
The Columbia Planned Parenthood
organizers! whose attack on Missouri's
restrictive abortion law was sustained
by the US Supreme Court Thursday
were predictably pleased, but anb
abortion forces owed to continue their
opposition
Karl Kruse, 1505 Windsor St
assistant director of Central Missouri
Planned Parenthood, said his group is
' pleased, very pleased with the
ruling "
The local group filed the suit
challenging the constitutionality of the
state's abortion law in 1974
Kruse said the Missouri law
regulating abortion was quite
inconsistent with the national laws until
this ruling was handed down "
Peter Davis, 700 S Greenwood Ave ,
former president of the Planned
Parenthood group, said the ruling " is
" women slights "
" A husband has no right to veto the
woman's decisions," Davis said Now,
any question concerning abortion will
be determined by a woman and her
doctor The policy won t be dictated bv
the state Therefore we'll no longer
be forced to send women out of state to
get an abortion "
The court struck down provisions of
the Missouri law which required
unmarried women under 18 v ears old to
receive parental permission before
having an abortion and required
married women to have the permission
of their husbands
Mary Scahse, president of the Famd
Life anti- aborti- on group in Columbia,
said she is concerned that a husband
will have no say in his wife's abortion
I see no merit in abortion Therefore I
see no ment in the rulings handed down
bv the Supreme Court It's a sad thing
that abortion is equated with birth
controL"
Ann O DonnelL head of the Missouri
Citizens for Life, said the " decision
made it clear that this court feels a
woman in fact has a constitutional right
to kill a relabv e of hers, as long as that
relative isn't born vet" Mrs O Donnell
said the decision makes it clear that an
amendment to the L S Constitution is
needed to ban abortions
Jackie Wessel, a coordinator at The
Women s Place counseling center in
Columbia thinks the court s ruling is a
good thing ' I was glad to hear that
women no longer need a husbands
consent to get an abortion '
I think that families improve when
happy individuals are inv olved. I don t
think happiness is detrimental I don t
like to think of myself as being in favor
of abortion so much as being in favor of
Dr Charles IxtaecK, dean of the
University School of Medicine said
University officials will need time to
consider any effect the court's ruling
may have on abortion policies at the
Medical Center
The Medical Center now does not
perform abortions unless the mother s
life ism danger A change in that polio
would have to be approved the
University Board of Curators
Carol Basktn, a spokeswoman for
Boone County Hospital said the
hospital will comply with anv regula
bon changes that it receives word of
' My reaction is one of elation,' said- Judi- th
Widdicombe, executive director
of Reproductive Health Services in St
Louis, the largest abortion clinic in
Missouri "
Let's try August
Council to meet, maybe
By Don Cooper
Missourian staff writer
The big question at city hall
Thursday was Will there be a City
Council meeting July 12' The answer
was not easy to come by
At least four members of the council
will meet at 11 45am today to discuss
the rescheduling of the July 12 meeting
The council is expected to schedule a
meeting for July 8 at 7 p m., but not
necessarily to take the place of the July
12 gathering
The July 12 meeting originally was
scheduled for July 5 but was
rescheduled at the June 19 meeting
because of the July 4 holiday
Confused7 Just wait
Thursday, several council members
told City Manager Terry Novak that the
July 12 meeting would have to be
rescheduled because only three courted
members would be available on that
date The councd needs four members
for a quorum
It would have been simple enough to
call a special council meeting
tomorrow to reschedule the July 12
meeting for July 8
But a complicating factor was thrown
into the works by Gladys Neal, the
assistant city clerk She pointed out
that the July 12 meeting could not be
postponed because a public hearing
concerning a rezoning on Tandy
Avenue already has been advertised, as
required by law, for the July 12
meeting
The upshot of the confusion is that
apparently the councd will meet today
to schedule the July 8 meeting The
councd will meet July 8 to consider
whatever was scheduled for the July 12
meeting except for the rezoning on
Tandy Avenue And the council will
leave the public hearing scheduled for
July 12 on that date
By the way, people who were
planning to attend the public hearing
should await until the scheduled July 19
meeting because if no more than three
council members show up July 12 the
hearing will be postponed.
" If you think you are confused, you
should have tried to straighten it all
out," said Marcia Lees, the city
manager's secretary

Insigiat
Rural water
district runs
silent, deep
Independence
from Columbia
water the goal
ByTenyfWedea
MfaMBrtm stag writer
An invisible government operating in
Boone County is busy laying plans to
declare its independence
That mudHgnored little government
is Boone County Consolidated Bural
Water District Number One, one of
eight such districts covering the
county
If the plans of this autonomous body
are successful, the single- purpos- e
government will be essentially
independent from the City of Columbia
for its water supply by this tune nex
year
The plans are not secret, but like
nearly everything undertaken by the
water district, no one pays much
attention.
The chief of state for Consolidated
Water District One Is executive
director Dell Cornell He has played a
leading role in the formation and
development of rural water districts
throughout Missouri for several years
" We're planning to put m a new welL
It's engineered along Route Wabout
sax miles ( 9 6 kilometers) southwest of
Columbia," Cornell says " It could be
in operation in less than a year
Between that and the connection
they're building cow, we should be able
to supply old district eight"
" The old eight" to which Cornell
refers is former rural water district
number eight It includes the northern
portion of the consolidated water
district That area, west of Columbia,
buys its water supply from the City of
Columbia
Consolidated Water District One is
comprised of old districts five, six and
eight Residents of the district voted to
merge just over a year ago
Former districts five and six are self- suffici- ent
Each has two 1200- fo- ot ( 360- mete- r)
wells ' Old eight," however,
has always purchased its water from
Columbia
Cornell says pipe is being laid to
connect okt Aatowrfr cx and dfegrtct
eight He says that project is nearly
completed, and should be in operation
within 30 days
Consolidated district one blankets
nearly half Boone County and ts far
larger than the seven other county
water districts
The district includes all of western
and southern Boone County, except
Ashland and Rocheport, from the
Missouri River to the Columbia city
limits It serves more than 200 water
subscribers That's a far cry from the
340 constituents old water district six
claimed in September 1966 when that
district was formed.
Even that initial figure was
considered something of an
achievement by the men who first
talked about establishing the district It
began operating less than two years
after the evening J M Jose visited
Cornell at his home to talk about their
water
' It was around the first of July in
64," Cornell recalls " The two of us
were just sitting there talking about
some kind of a water district We
figured there were about a hundred
families in a little cluster that could be
served, so we called a meeting "
Twenty- fiv- e persons showed up
" We figured that was a pretty high
interest, so we called a second meeting
two weeks later, and 100 people snowed
up with checks in hand," Cornellsays
That was the beginning of water
district six which was serving some
1,200 users in April of last year when the
three districts voted overwhelmingly to
merge
The consolidation was only the
second such action by water districts in
the state Two districts near Lamar in
( See DISTRICTS, Page 14)
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68th Year No. 239 Gtmd Morning! It a Friday Jul 2, 1976 16 Pages 15 Cent
I
Missouri abortion law overturned N. Y. Times Service
WASHINGTON The Supreme
Court ruled 6 to 3 Thursday that states
may not require women to get the
consent of their husbands before they
may have an abortion
The Court also ruled, 5 to 4, that
states may not impose " blanket"
restrictions requiring all single women
under the age of 18 to get the consent of
a parent to have an abortion. The Court
intimated, however, that some more
limited restrictions may be placed on
younger women's right to abortion.
The court issued the rulings in one of
two cases Thursday involving
Missouri's abortion law. ( One of the
cases was initiated by a Columbia pro- abortio- n
group)
The decision, taken together with the
justices unanimous ruling in a thud
abortion case, involving a
Massachusetts law, suggested that
states might be ante to enact a law
calling for parental consent if that law
allowed a " mature minor" to avoid this
requirement, and if tt allowed other
minors to get an abortion despite a
parent's refusal to consent if the
abortion was in their " best interests."
Thursday the Court held unanimously
that states may require a woman,
before she has an abortion, to specify
that her consent is " freely given" and
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not the product of " coercion." The
Missouri law included this
requirement
The Court also held 6 to 3 that it was
unconstitutional for a state to bar the
use of ' saline amniocentesis" in
abortions performed after the 12th
week of pregnancy Missouri had
barred this procedure on the ground
that it was " deleterious" to the
women's health.
The Court ruled in tee Missouri case
that it was consbtubonal for a state to
define viability" the period after
which states may ban abortions as
the stage of fetal development " when
the life of the unborn child may be
continued indefinitely outside the womb
by natural or artificial life- supporti- ve
systems"
The Court also ruled that states may
impose, as Missouri did, reporting and
record- keepin- g requirements for
clinics, hospitals and doctors.
That states may not, as Missouri did,
require doctors performing abortions to
exercise the same degree of care to
preserve the life of the fetus as would be
required to preserve the life of a fetus
that was intended to be born alive
rather than aborted the Court said
The Court provided that there be no
restrictions on the woman's right to an
abortion in the first trimester, that
there could be restrictions in the second
trimester designed to protect the
women's health, and that the state
could forbid abortion in the third
trimester after viability
The lawsuits ruled on Thursday were
brought by two Missouri physicians.
David Hall, 3400 Balboa Lane,
Columbia, and Michael Freiman, St
Louis and a branch of Planned
Parenthood Association in Columbia,
Mo another was brought by Dr
Freiman and a second doctor, George
J L. Wulff, St Louis,, and a suit by an
abortion counselling sen ice in
Massachusetts with several unnamed
single minor girls as co- plaintif- fs
Reflections on America
America is a second country for Van Beasley,
306 S. William St. Mrs. Beasley came to the
United States from Vietnam in June 1968,
after marrying Bill Beasley, an American
serviceman. She is now a naturalized citizen
" I am glad to be here There is more
freedom to talk than in Vietnam and travel is
easier. In Vietnam there was a lot of paper
work and waiting before you could travel.
" What I like best about America is the big
land, green grass and the trees Vietnam is so
crowded, she said. " I lived m Nhatrang, the
fourth largest city m South Vietnam It had
about the same number of people as
Columbia. But the bousing was so crowded
Even the rich people m Vietnam, that have big
bouses or villas, do not have the land that a
regular home's yard has in America "
Mrs. Beasley has a brother in America The
rest of her family is soil in Vietnam " I'll
never forget the culture, the little things,
traditions or customs of Vietnam But my
husband and children ( three daughters) are
here. I'm happy to take America for my
second country," she said.
Columbia plans big Bicentennial weekend
By Kathy Booman
Mbsenrian staff writer
The 200m birthday of America will be
celebrated all weekend m and around
Columbia, climaxing with a fireworks
display at the Memorial Stadium.
City officials expect about 20,000
persons to attend the fireworks display
Sunday night
The celebrations will begin today
with the dedication of Columbia College
as a Bicentennial campus The
ceremony will be at 11 45 a m. on the
front steps of St Clair Hail
Today is also the last day for " Sign
Up, America" at Parkade Plaza
Shoppers can sign their names to
scrolls, some of which will be sent to the
White House as a gift
The Columbia Bicentennial parade
will begin at 10 am. Saturday at
Stephens College and proceed along
Broadway to the Safeway store near
Garth Avenue There are about 95
enbies, including floats, musical
groups, fire trucks, horses, decorated
bicycles and clowns
Mayor Bob Pugh wul be the grand
marshal, accompanied by a 1776 color
guard complete with drum and fife
Judging for the best decorated
bicycles will be at 9 ajn. The parade is
sponsored by the Optimist Clubs of
Columbia
The Older Americans Klub and the
Paquin Towers Senior Citizens Club
will hold a craft sale and demonstration
at the Columbia- Cosmopolit- an
Recreation Area from 10 aon to 6 pm.
Saturday
Ceramics, paintings and weavuigs
will be sold, and there will be
demonstrations of rug hoooking, candle
dipping and quilting Visitors can tr
their hand at the crafts while listening
to the Oak Towers Kazoo Band and the
Paquin Towers Choir, and watching the
square dancing
The Maplewood ribbon cutting and
open bouse will be at 3 p m Saturday
at Nifong Park. Maplewood was
restored as an American Revolution
Bicentennial project and will be
officially dedicated at the Saturday
ceremonies
Bicentennial celebrations continue
Sunday, beginning with a special
worship service at 11 a m at the
Stephens College Assembly Hall. The
speaker at the community interfaith
Bicentennial worship service will be
Bishop William R Cannon of the United
Methodist Church in Atlanta, Ga
A tn- coun- ty worship service and
picnic at Rocheport is planned by five
area churches The 11 ajn. worship
service will be on the lawn between the
Christian and Methodist churches An
old- fashion- ed carry- i- n basket picnic
will be at noon on the lawn
Free tours of a more than 100- year- o- ld
log cabin at 809 West Boulevard N
wQl be conducted Sunday and Monday
from9a. m to 4 p. m.
There will be a dedication of the
Dripping Springs 4-- H Club monument
at 11 15 a m. at the Dripping Springs
Christian Church, off U S 63 North
The climax of the Bicentennial
celebrations will be at the Memorial
Stadium Beginning at 2 30 p m Sun-day
at the west end of the stadium,
there will be carnival games
demonstrations and craft displavs
music entertainment, refreshments
and a barbecue
The Oak Towers Kazoo Band, the
Mizzou Youth Symphony , The Chuko s
and Wonder Dog, and other individual
acts will entertain from 2 30to8pm
Under the stadium at the west end,
there will be a crafts demonstration of
furmture- makin- g, candle- makin- g,
weaving and pottery as well as
displays of antique guns and tools, wood
carvings and authentic stained glass
This will be from 2 30to9pm
The carnival games will run from 4
p m to 9 p m and the $ 1 50- a- pl- ate
chicken barbeque will be from4pm to
7pm
FromSpm. to9pm there will be a
( See FIREWORKS, Page 16)
U. S. now investigating
activities of Korshak
By Seymour ML Harsh
N Y. Tunes Service
NEW YORK More than 35 years
after his activities in organized crime
first came to the attention of the
government, Sidney R. Korshak now is
the prune target of a major federal
investigation
Officials said in recent interviews
that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation was accumulating
evidence on Korshak's alleged
involvement In a labor racketeering
scheme in Southern California
So far, however, no indictments have
been presented in the caseIndeed,
Korshak's name has surfaced in
connection with more than organised
crime investigations over the years,
and he has testified or been subpoenaed
to testify before at least six federal and
Sidney Korshak has been called
the most important link between
organized crime and legitimate
business in toe nation. He is also a
multimillionaire labor lawyer, a
friend of Hollywood stars and a man
of enormous influence and prestige.
This is the nextto- bu- t article in a
series on Ms activities,
state grand juries But he has never
been indicted.
Korshak's friends and associates
have quoted him as boasting about the
government's Inability to -- produce
evidence of criminal activity by him
" I've been investigated by more
congressional committees than
anybody," one associate recalled his
saying during a 1968 business meeting
" But nobody's got anything on me "
Some officials attributed the failure
to convict Korshak to a lack of high- lev- el
commitment in government to
organized crone investigations and a
chronic reluctance to seek the
indictment of lawyers who represent
underworld figures
Officials said, however, that in recent
months the Justice Department had
begun a major re- examinat- ion of its
efforts against sophisticated economic
crime and labor racketeering, focusing
on Korshak and a number of others
Jay C Waldman, deputy assistant
attorney general in charge of the
Justice Department's criminal
division, said in an interview that new
emphasis would be placed on tracing
the underworld's infiltration of
legitimate business
" Organized crime is no longer a
bunch of characters hanging around
ethnic ndghborbocxis," he said. " If
( See FBI, Page 14)
Ruling pleases
By Gayla Neumeyer
Missourian staff writer
The Columbia Planned Parenthood
organizers! whose attack on Missouri's
restrictive abortion law was sustained
by the US Supreme Court Thursday
were predictably pleased, but anb
abortion forces owed to continue their
opposition
Karl Kruse, 1505 Windsor St
assistant director of Central Missouri
Planned Parenthood, said his group is
' pleased, very pleased with the
ruling "
The local group filed the suit
challenging the constitutionality of the
state's abortion law in 1974
Kruse said the Missouri law
regulating abortion was quite
inconsistent with the national laws until
this ruling was handed down "
Peter Davis, 700 S Greenwood Ave ,
former president of the Planned
Parenthood group, said the ruling " is
" women slights "
" A husband has no right to veto the
woman's decisions," Davis said Now,
any question concerning abortion will
be determined by a woman and her
doctor The policy won t be dictated bv
the state Therefore we'll no longer
be forced to send women out of state to
get an abortion "
The court struck down provisions of
the Missouri law which required
unmarried women under 18 v ears old to
receive parental permission before
having an abortion and required
married women to have the permission
of their husbands
Mary Scahse, president of the Famd
Life anti- aborti- on group in Columbia,
said she is concerned that a husband
will have no say in his wife's abortion
I see no merit in abortion Therefore I
see no ment in the rulings handed down
bv the Supreme Court It's a sad thing
that abortion is equated with birth
controL"
Ann O DonnelL head of the Missouri
Citizens for Life, said the " decision
made it clear that this court feels a
woman in fact has a constitutional right
to kill a relabv e of hers, as long as that
relative isn't born vet" Mrs O Donnell
said the decision makes it clear that an
amendment to the L S Constitution is
needed to ban abortions
Jackie Wessel, a coordinator at The
Women s Place counseling center in
Columbia thinks the court s ruling is a
good thing ' I was glad to hear that
women no longer need a husbands
consent to get an abortion '
I think that families improve when
happy individuals are inv olved. I don t
think happiness is detrimental I don t
like to think of myself as being in favor
of abortion so much as being in favor of
Dr Charles IxtaecK, dean of the
University School of Medicine said
University officials will need time to
consider any effect the court's ruling
may have on abortion policies at the
Medical Center
The Medical Center now does not
perform abortions unless the mother s
life ism danger A change in that polio
would have to be approved the
University Board of Curators
Carol Basktn, a spokeswoman for
Boone County Hospital said the
hospital will comply with anv regula
bon changes that it receives word of
' My reaction is one of elation,' said- Judi- th
Widdicombe, executive director
of Reproductive Health Services in St
Louis, the largest abortion clinic in
Missouri "
Let's try August
Council to meet, maybe
By Don Cooper
Missourian staff writer
The big question at city hall
Thursday was Will there be a City
Council meeting July 12' The answer
was not easy to come by
At least four members of the council
will meet at 11 45am today to discuss
the rescheduling of the July 12 meeting
The council is expected to schedule a
meeting for July 8 at 7 p m., but not
necessarily to take the place of the July
12 gathering
The July 12 meeting originally was
scheduled for July 5 but was
rescheduled at the June 19 meeting
because of the July 4 holiday
Confused7 Just wait
Thursday, several council members
told City Manager Terry Novak that the
July 12 meeting would have to be
rescheduled because only three courted
members would be available on that
date The councd needs four members
for a quorum
It would have been simple enough to
call a special council meeting
tomorrow to reschedule the July 12
meeting for July 8
But a complicating factor was thrown
into the works by Gladys Neal, the
assistant city clerk She pointed out
that the July 12 meeting could not be
postponed because a public hearing
concerning a rezoning on Tandy
Avenue already has been advertised, as
required by law, for the July 12
meeting
The upshot of the confusion is that
apparently the councd will meet today
to schedule the July 8 meeting The
councd will meet July 8 to consider
whatever was scheduled for the July 12
meeting except for the rezoning on
Tandy Avenue And the council will
leave the public hearing scheduled for
July 12 on that date
By the way, people who were
planning to attend the public hearing
should await until the scheduled July 19
meeting because if no more than three
council members show up July 12 the
hearing will be postponed.
" If you think you are confused, you
should have tried to straighten it all
out," said Marcia Lees, the city
manager's secretary